Last week note November 8, 2025: Weekly Notes 2025/21
- How to tolerate annoying things | Psyche Guides was recently discussed on HN. From a comment, I learnt about an interesting book on similar lines https://www.amazon.in/Mud-Lotus-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1937006859.
- E.W.Dijkstra Archive: On the foolishness of “natural language programming”. (EWD 667) and Programming as theory building : Naur.pdf are two articles that kill AI for programming vibes. These are very good auto-complete tools.
- Swizec Teller newsletter is a joy to read. I love how each article gets to the point so quickly. Let’s see how much I learn from him.
- Now, I am almost convinced that OOP was a bad idea. I am preparing a reading list to learn a bit more about OOP, but my focus is now on its shortcomings, e.g. Subtyping, Subclassing, and Trouble with OOP and When did people favor composition over inheritance?. I also learnt about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov who avoided inheritance.
- I’ll try Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git [LWN.net] this week.
- November 16, 2025 I wasted quite a lot of time watching the 3rd day of the first test match between India and South Africa. It was a fast moving test. It was nice to see bowlers dominating for once. Always a joy to watch Bumrah bowling. Siraj is a very fine bowler, but his body-language — he is fluent in many dialects — is often rude and unnecessary hostile. Liked Jansen spell. He was calm, composed and very menacing. It was sad that only of couple of Indian batter showed any grit in the last innings.
- This weekend, I fixed a broken pipeline of Smoldyn simulator. I am planning to spend some time modernizing it GUI.